About

Nate Housley is a public historian and independent researcher. He is a member of Democratic Socialists of Salt Lake.

Nate was born and raised in South Carolina, though he has Mormon ancestry from Utah and Idaho. He now lives in Salt Lake City, where he enjoys the outdoors year-round. To contact Nate, click the link here.


Education

PhD student, US History, University of Utah (current)

MA US History, University of Utah 2019

BA English, Brigham Young University, Provo 2006


Selected Work

Topic areas: Western history, labor, land and water, uranium

Water and Great Salt Lake:

Great Salt Lake and the Uinta Basin: An Intertwined History

‘Free Water’ Was Never Free

We have to put the Great Salt Lake first

Presentations:

Running Out of Free Water

Working to Save Great Salt Lake Advocacy, at Utah State History Conference 2022

Guest spot on Brigham Young Money podcast

Uranium:

The Uranium Boom and Free Enterprise

“Risk and Reward,” part of Mining the West digital exhibit

Utah history:

Rural Utah at a Crossroads (co-author)

A Distance Reading of Immigration in Carbon County

Helper, Utah

Legalized Water Theft: The Daniels Diversion

Adapt or Die: Utah’s Contested Water History